What was the first gig you ever went to?

For me it was Chubby Checker (Earnest Evans) doing The Twist
in a big revival style tent at Monroe County Fair, Rochester, NY
in like 1960 or 61.

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Permalink Reply by Jack on February 4, 2012 at 9:47am

Boston, with Cheap Trick opening, Buffalo's old Memorial Auditorium, 1976.  Second was Fleetwood Mac, Kenny Loggins opening, also at the old Aud, 1977 I believe.

Permalink Reply by Jack Williams on February 4, 2012 at 10:07am

First five, all in the latter half of 1978:

Genesis at Madison Square Garden, late July 1978

Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Journey, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush at Giants Stadium, August 1978

Yes at Madison Square Garden, September 1978

Jethro Tull at Madison Square Garden, October 1978

Outlaws and Molly Hatchett at Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, November 1978

Permalink Reply by Rudyjeep on February 7, 2012 at 5:18am

I was at the Outlaws - Molly Hatchet show Jack!  It was either my second or third show.  My first show was J. Geils at the Mid Hudson Civic Center, probably a few months before.  The Civic Center got a lot of my money back then.       

Permalink Reply by Jack Williams on February 8, 2012 at 3:02pm

Small world.  I drove the 70 or so miles north from Rockland County to hang with a high school buddy at Marist College and go to the show.  Thought it was a great show.  Had never heard of Molly Hatchett at the time.  Got their first album shortly afterwards. 

The only other Mid Hudson Civic Center show I saw was Rush a few months later in the spring of 1979.  It was the Hemispheres tour. 

Permalink Reply by Rudyjeep on February 8, 2012 at 3:42pm

I believe that was the Rush show I saw as well.  I sat in the bleachers in back but I remember feeling the heat from the explosion during 2112.  I thought it was before Hemispheres but it had to be early 79 when I would have caught them.  As I said, I went to quite a few shows at the Civic Center back then. 

Two other shows I remember from 1979 - Ted Nugent and AC/DC (with Bon Scott) at Madison Square Garden and Boston, The Outlaws, Todd Rundgren and Utopia and Poco at Giant Stadium.  Strange lineup when I think of it now.  Any chance you remember that show? 

Permalink Reply by Jack Williams on February 8, 2012 at 4:03pm

It was defintely the Hemispheres tour.  I got the softball shirt that said Tour of the Hemispheres.   I was on the floor but way in the back and close to the bleachers.   My seat for the Outlaws show was very close to the front, which might help explain why I had a much time at that one, as the acoustics weren't the greatest at that place.

My sister might have gone to that Giants Stadium show in 1979.  The only other show I went to that year was The Who in Fall 1979.  It was a year after Keith Moon died.  I remember Pete Townsend cut open his hand on one of his windmills and had to leave for a while to get stitched up.   Roger put on Pete's guitar and led a little Who campfire sing along (or something. memory's a little hazy). 

Saw the Outlaws/Molly Hatchet lineup one more time.  In 1980, I think.   Broome County Auditorium or something or other.  Binghamton.

Permalink Reply by Rachel C on February 4, 2012 at 2:41pm

Cowboy Mouth and Fighting Gravity, Irving Plaza (NYC), 2001

Permalink Reply by dan merrell on February 4, 2012 at 11:02pm

Spring 1968 in OKC, Sweetwater opening for The Animals. I think tickets were about $8. I remember "White Bird" from Sweetwater and "Sky Pilot" which got into a very long and repetitive jam from Eric Burton & The Animals - Very "far out man". A great evening with a pretty girl.

Permalink Reply by Jack Kidd on February 6, 2012 at 2:22pm

23rd. May 1964,

City Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Swinging Blue Jeans, King Size Taylor & The Dominoes, The Animals, The Other Two, Nashville Teens

Permalink Reply by Kyla Fairchild on February 6, 2012 at 6:14pm

Promise me you won't hold it against me but mine was Loverboy and Billy Squire in the Spokane Coliseum in about 1979 or 1980. 

Permalink Reply by Derek on February 6, 2012 at 6:20pm

Aerosmith and White Lion at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo.  

Permalink Reply by Will James on February 6, 2012 at 8:23pm

The Who, 1967, Melody Fair (The Tent), in the round, outside Buffalo and Niagara Falls, second row seats, but behind a wall of amps. My buddies moved, but timid me stayed put; could see some of it through a hole in the equipment. They introduced the brand new Magic Bus which seemed to go on for 20 minutes (was great!). At the conclusion of My Generation, smoke bombs began to go off, Daltry's mike was whipping around my head, and amps were flying all around me. I was 14.

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